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Accelerate with ATS: IBM B-Type/Brocade SAN Switch Advanced Features
This session will cover switch features including Virtual Fabrics, Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), and Fibre Channel routing. It will provide usage details of each feature,...

NOW FOR THE I/O I highlighted some of the excellent AIX performance tuning resources here . They particularly dealt with memory and paging space. Now to I/O tuning. Fewer larger LUNs and checking queue_depth Jaqui Lynch has the follow up article in her...

Queue manager error logs can be difficult to read, and it doesn't help when you see the log flooded with informational messages like: AMQ9001 Channel <insert_3> ended normally. AMQ9002 Channel <insert_3> is starting. AMQ9202 Remote host...

As an administrator of a WebSphere MQ Queue Manager, you have the job of ensuring that the system runs smoothly and that a badly behaving application cannot have an impact on other users of the queue manager. One of the ways you ensure this...

Another in the series of bite size blog posts about features in MQ V8. Check out the whole series here .
MQ v8 includes new functionality that allows you to specify channels to use a different certificate for SSL and TLS connections (TLS is Transport...

WebSphere MQ V7.1 introduced a feature which allows you to block IP addresses from connecting to your queue manager - this feature is Channel Authentication Records, or CHLAUTH for short. In fact there are two ways that CHLAUTH allows you to block IP...

You're changing the queue managers default listener port. Be very careful, because this could cause channel problems, or other unexpected results, which are difficult to debug. Each queue manager is created with the default listener port set to 1414. This...

My favorite part of channel status is a field showing the sub status for a channel - SUBSTATE. It is just one little field and yet it can convey so much information about what the channel is doing. It was originally introduced in WebSphere MQ V6...

WebSphere MQ V7.1 introduced a channel security feature called Channel Authentication Records, or CHLAUTH for short. The feature allows you to set rules to indicate what should happen to inbound connections to your queue manager. By default there...

WebSphere MQ V7.1 introduced a channel security feature, Channel Authentication Records, or CHLAUTH for short. This feature allows you to set up rules to detail how your inbound connections should be treated. Should they be allowed or blocked. Today we shall...

Recent discussions I’ve had have made me realise that there are many MQ clusters out there that have cluster sender channels manually defined where they shouldn’t be, and possibly some missing where they really should be. This could be down to...

I was
collecting a list of WWPNs for a bunch of new AIX LPARs I was installing from
scratch. There were two ways I could find the WWPN for a virtual Fibre Channel
adapter on a new LPAR i.e. one that did not yet have an operating system
installed.
...

With Brocade's recent announcement of a 16 Gbps capable Fibre Channel Switch and Director , the question of which cable type to purchase becomes even more relevant. Do you buy OM3 or OM4 cable over OM2? Now if your saying... OM-what? Let me start at the...